I just recently responded to an offer to update Firefox (I don't remember the versions) and the process eliminated Google and substituted
a search engine called Ask. I clicked on the command line "Get started", and appear to have downloaded the program. But then when I opened
Firefox again and clicked on "ask" it opened the download window again.
How can I get Google back?

Ask.com is not installed by Mozilla but can be added with some 3rd party Firefox add-ons or other programs.

Is this for searching from the location bar?
If it is try this:
Type about:config into the location/address bar and press enter
A warning dialog pops up, confirm this by selecting I'll be careful, I promiseIn the filter box type keyword
This will bring up some settings containing keyword, right-click on the one called keyword.URL and select Reset

Now I have the googls toolbar restored. But I have a firefox toolbar that appeared somehow, and I don't need that, but I can't find a way toe delete it.
there also seems to have appeared one for this web site, which I don't need, as I have a bookmark for it.

Now I have the googls toolbar restored. But I have a firefox toolbar that appeared somehow, and I don't need that, but I can't find a way toe delete it.
there also seems to have appeared one for this web site, which I don't need, as I have a bookmark for it.

As far as I can tell, The Lounge doesn't create any "toolbars." Can you please provide some type of screenshot of what you're seeing?